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Energy Futures Lab and The Sustainable Gas Institute are proud to present a research seminar from Prof. Julio Romano Meneghini of the University of São Paulo and alumni of Imperial College London.
Brazil has the second largest gas reserves in South America (after Venezuela). They are predominantly found in the Campos and Santos basins off the southern Atlantic coast of Rio de Janerio and Sao Paulo states. This natural gas is found in a both deep water and deep under the seabed below a layer of salt, hence Pre-Salt, which was deposited when the continents of South America and Africa rifted approximately 125m years ago. Once the natural gas has been extracted it often has a high CO2 content which is separated on Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel before the natural gas product is shipped onwards.
This talk will explore the challenges around exploration and production of natural gas from the Pre-Salt basins and will introduce a new research initiative, CEPID, Fapesp-BG Brasil Centre for Gas Innovation, based at the University of Sao Paulo which is designed to develop technologies which can exploit this resource in a way that is consistent with future low carbon secure, competitive and affordable energy systems.
Biography
Prof. Julio Romano Meneghini is a Full Professor of Applications and Principles in Mechanical Engineering, “Escola Politécnica,” University of São Paulo, PhD in Aeronautics, Imperial College – University of London (1993). DIC-Diploma of Imperial College in Aeronautical Engineering (1993). “Livre Docente” in Fluid Mechanics, University of São Paulo – USP (2002). Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, USP (1989). He has a first degree in Physics (BSc) from “Instituto de Física,” USP (1989) and in Civil Engineering (EEM, 1984). He holds a CNPq’s fellowship (PQ) Level 1B.
He has been working in research projects in Aeronautical, Mechanical, Naval and Oceanic Engineering, as coordinator or consultant. His main areas of interest are investigations focusing on vortex shedding, vortex-induced vibration, computational fluid dynamics, bluff body flow and aeroacoustics. He worked as Research Associate at the Department of Aeronautics-Imperial College in 1995. Since 1994, he is an academic member of staff of the Mechanical Engineering Department of “Escola Politécnica” of University of São Paulo (EPUSP).
He is the coordinator of the Fluid & Dynamics Research Group (NDF) at EPUSP. He is the author or co-author of more than 130 papers published. He has been coordinating research projects sponsored by Petrobras, Embraer, Fapesp, Finep/CTPetro, CNPq/CTPetro, Voith-Siemens, British Petroleum (BP), Oxiteno and BG-Group. He was one of the co-chairmen of the International Conference BBVIV5 (5th Bluff Body Wakes and Vortex-induced Vibration Conference) held in Costa do Sauípe, Brazil, in 2006. He is member of the Scientific Committee of BBVIV. He was the Co-Chairman of the IUTAM-ABCM Symposium on Laminar Turbulent Transition held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2014.
He is currently responsible for the undergraduate courses of Fluid Mechanics II and Aerodynamics at EPUSP. He is also responsible for the post-graduation courses of Vortex Shedding, Flow-induced Vibration and Hydrodynamic Stability at EPUSP. Member of the Scientific Committee of the BBVIV Conferences and revisor of scientific papers for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Fluids and Structures, International Journal of Heat Transfer, Physics of Fluids, Experiments in Fluids, Phylosophical Transactions of the Royal Sociaty A, among others. He is a consultant of Cape’s Committee of the Three-Annual Evaluations (2007/08/09 e 2010/11/12) of the Engineering III Post-Graduation Programmes (Mechanical, Mechatronics, Naval and Ocean, Aeronautical, Production and Petroleum Engineering).